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England and Saracens scrum-half Richard Wigglesworth has been ruled out for the rest of the season after undergoing knee surgery. The 28-year-old damaged his anterior cruciate knee ligament during Sunday's LV= Cup clash with Exeter. Wigglesworth, who was part of England's World Cup squad, will miss the whole of the 2012 Six Nations championship. It's one of those horrible rugby injuries," added McCall. He was operated on Wednesday afternoon. He'll be out for seven to nine months.

""He's been brilliant for Saracens. I thought he was very good in England's World Cup warm-up matches and in the game time he got in the World Cup, and he came back confident and buzzing to play. He's a player who has worked incredibly hard to get back into English contention and he did that because he deserved it.
McCall – ‘Unfortunately these things happen. It's the first injury he's ever had, the longest he's been out is two weeks so we feel desperate for him but we know he'll bounce back’

Nicola Adams became the first British woman to win a major boxing title with victory at the European championships.

NICOLA ADAMS
Born: 26/10/82
From: Leeds
Class: Flyweight
Weight: 51kg
Club: Haringey ABC
Career so far:
Euro silver medal, 2007
World silver medal, 2008
World silver medal, 2010
Euro gold medal, 2011

England's Adams, who is part of GB Boxing's Olympic squad, beat Sarah Ourahmoune of France 15-8 in the flyweight final in Rotterdam. There were also silver medals for Lynsey Holdaway of Wales and England's Lisa Whiteside in non-Olympic categories.

Adams had already beaten Ourahmoune this year on her way to winning the European Union Championships in June, but a repeat looked uncertain when she trailing behind 2-0 after the first round and 4-3 after the second. However, a more hostile Adams took charge in the third and managed to take the lead at 9-6 going into the fourth.

Adams had been the first English female boxer to win a medal at a major tournament when she won European silver in 2007, and has since collected two silvers at world level, but this was her first experience of gold in a major tournament.

And having not won a European medal since Adams in 2007, England ended the week in Rotterdam with a best-ever haul of four.

Adams finished by saying:
"I said before the tournament I was hoping to get gold. I was determined and would not be denied and I'm bringing this gold back to England. I was down after the first round but, again, I was determined.”

PARK PAYS OFF!

At the Emirates, Arsenal beat Bolton by two goals to one moving them two steps forward to the quarter finals. Wengers choice to play Park paid off as both Park and Arshavin scored goals.

Bolton made eight changes to the side (that was beaten by Sunderland) for the weekend Carling Cup fourth round fight at Arsenal. Only Gary Cahill and Darren Pratley kept hold of their places at the Emirates.

Arsenal changed all 11 players from the team that beat Stoke City. The Arsenal fans were glad at the return of Vermaelen after his long injury spell.

The Chosen Teams

Bolton: Bogdan, Steinsson, Cahill, Knight, Gardner, Tuncay, Pratley, Muamba, Mark Davis, Kakuta, Klasnic.
Subs: Eagles, Reo-Coker, Blake, Jaaskelainen, Ngog, Wheater, Riley.

Arsenal: Fabianski, Yennaris, Squillaci, Vermaelen (c), Miquel, Coquelin, Frimpong, Benayoun, Chamberlain, Arshavin, Park.
Subs: Mannone, Ryo, Aneke, Boateng, Meade, Ozyakup, Watt.

In the 8th minute of the match Arsenal acquired their first chance for a goal as they got a corner. Arshavin took the corner and found the head of Miquel, but the defender’s header did not find the target and went wide.

During the 27th minute of the game a Yellow Card (the only one of the match) was given to Sébastien Squillaci. Obtained after he cut off a Bolton attack on the half way line.

The 47th minute saw its first goal of the game as Fabrice Muamba the previous Arsenal man put Bolton up 1-0, Muamba made a good run holding off a pass. He sooner or later put it in to the path of Pratley who took two touches and tapped it back to Muamba who fired the ball into the top of the net.

The 53rd minute and Arsenal secured back an equalizing goal to make 1-1. Arshavin charged towards Knight, he smashed a shot hard into the bottom corner through the legs of Knight who tried to block but didn’t stand a chance.

The 56th minute Goal scorer Arshavin again picked up the ball and ran at the Bolton defence. This time he played to Park (finally gets himself onside) who was 15 yards from the goal and he easily finished, moving the ball past Bogdan finally scoring another Goal! 2-1 Arsenal.

The game saw four minutes of extra-time. Arsenal still controlling the game. Although Wenger was moaning about the amount of stoppage.

Final score 2-1 to the Arsenal and well deserved too.

Arsenal and Bolton first played each other way back in 1899 and this will be their 132nd match against each other. But it’s the first time they have met in the League Cup.
For Bolton, the game is perhaps a welcome break from their league woes. Wanderers are third from bottom of the table and Sunday's home defeat against Sunderland was their third loss in four matches.

One of those defeats was against Arsenal, who beat them 3-0 at the Emirates Stadium only last month. Having also recently been hammered 5-1 by Chelsea and 5-0 by Manchester United, Bolton are possibly sick of the sight of the top flight's heavyweights.

A win tonight would see them reach the quarter-finals for the first time since the 2005-06 season. It would also see Arsenal lose out on a place in the last eight for the first time in nine years. The Gunners are yet to lose at the Emirates Stadium in the League Cup. They have won their last seven home matches in this competition, scoring 21 goals in the process and conceding only two. Arsenal last went out at the fourth round stage in November 1999, when they lost at Middlesbrough on penalties.

Wenger – ‘I know Park will prove his worth’ let’s hope he proves it tonight and keeps arsenals hopes alive.